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The British Daily Express recently reported that a skin cream with an unexpected ingredient could lower blood pressure.<\/p>\nThe British Daily Express recently reported that a skin cream with an unexpected ingredient could lower blood pressure.<\/p>\n
That sounds like an unlikely claim because your skin is supposed to serve as a barrier that prevents stuff from entering your body.<\/p>\n
So we decided to follow up. After all, if it is true, it would constitute a blood pressure remedy that involves no drugs, something we would be keen to explore.<\/p>\n
The study described was performed by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and published in the journal PLOS ONE.<\/em><\/p>\n They asked volunteers with an average age of 34 years to use either a 56 mg per day magnesium cream or a normal cream for two weeks. They also had to keep food diaries to estimate their oral intake of magnesium.<\/p>\n High magnesium level in blood and urine has been proven to lower blood pressure. But does applying magnesium to your skin help? That was the question researchers wanted to answer.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the study, the two groups had identical amounts of magnesium in their blood and urine.<\/p>\n After the two weeks, the magnesium cream group\u2019s blood magnesium had increased by between 0.82 and 0.89 mmol\/l (millimole per liter). The group using the normal cream displayed no such increase.<\/p>\n Researchers felt confident concluding that magnesium skin cream can increase the magnesium found in blood. Therefore, naturally lower blood pressure.<\/p>\n